Process of making undergarments of inelastic material



Aug, 7, "E928.

M. D. NEILSON PROCESS OF MAKING UNDERGARMENTS OF INELASTIC MATERIAL Original Filed June 22, 1920 2 s s 1 I/vvE/wwfi: MARY D. NE/LSON A row/vars.

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M. D. NEILSON PROQESS OF MAKING UNDERGARMENTS 0F INELASTIC MATERIAL Original Filed June 22, 1920 ATTORNE Y6.

Patented Aug. 7, 1%28.

warren stares MARY 1). NEILSON, or MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

PROCESS OF MAKING UNDERGARMENTS OF INELASTIC MATERIAL.

Application filed June 22, 1920, Serial No. 390,731.

My invention relates to a process of making garments of inelastic material and has for its object to provide acombination suit of underwear, or a one-piece garment for children, which may be made of muslin or other goods and which shall adapt itself well to the form of the wearer no matter what the position of the body without any tension or strain at any point; and which is provided with a single back opening, selfclosing in one form, and is suspended from the shoulders of the wearer. The self-closing form of garment is so constructed that there is no extra fullness about bust and waist; and yet all fastenings or buttons are done away with. Notwithstanding that the opening is self-closing, the garment fits the body so perfectly that the body is completely covered in all positions. The form of garment employing buttons or fastenings likewise provides no extra fullness about bust or waist and fits the" body in all positions of the wearer so that binding strains and tensions are completely avoided. Specifically the garment in all of its modlfications embodies a front, formed of a single piece, having the same outlines in all the modifications of the garment. Also in one of the modifications of the undergarment the front piece is opened at the center and provided with buttons, but in all other particulars its shape and combining relation with the other portions of the garment remains unchanged. It is a chief object of my invention therefore to provide a combination garment formed with drawers and waist portions having a front member of fixed outline, preferably in onepiece, said front member having a center cleft and being adaptedto have sewed to its side edges and to the cleft other members having longer side edges, said extra length being taken up by gathering along one portion of the seam whereby a combination semifitted garment is provided having a requisite degree of fullness at the a seat portion of the drawers, and having a center rear opening extending from the front member a portion or all of the way along the center of the back member. I The full objects and advantages of my invention will appear in connection with the detailed description thereof and the novel features of the invention are particularly pointed out in the claims.

Renewed December 5, 1927.

In the drawings illustrating an applicat1on of my invention,-

Fig. l is a perspective view of the garment 1n position upon the wearer and also showing the garment in perspective elevation independent of the wearer. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary detail view showing the manner in which the self-closing effect is produced. Fig. 3 illustrates the effect of the fullness in certain portions of the garment 1n avoiding strains in contorted positions of the body. Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are pat-tern details showing the manner of construction of the garment illustrated in Fig. 1. Fig. 7 illustrates a garment in position on the form of the wearer wherein the open back has been eliminated, the back being in one section with an opening for a short distance up the center. Fig. 8 illustrates this garment, the front there shown being the same as the front shown in Fig. 6, while Fig. 9 is a pattern of the back, which is sewed to the part shown in Fig. 6.

Figs. 10 and 11 show a form of garment on the wearer in different positions wherein the open back is intercepted by a fashioned waist, the front being in one piece as shown in Fig. 12, said front being the same as that shown in Fig. 6. Figs. 13 and 14 are patterns showing the manner in which the garment is fabricated, employing the front of Fig. 6. Fig. 15 shows fitted to the form of the wearer a garment similar to that shown in Fig. 10 except that the same is open down the front. Fig. 16 shows the front view of the garment of Fig. 15. 'Fig. 17 is'a pattern of the front of the garment of Fig. 15, which is attached to the portions shown in Figs. 13 and 14 to produce the garment of Fig. 15.

In general the garment comprises a front part 10 having shaped side edges 11, 12, as most clearly shown inFigs. 6 and 17, and a rear or back part. designated generally by the character 15, which back part has shaped side edges 16, 17.

In all of the different forms the side edges 11, 12 of the front part and 16, 17 of the back member are substantially the same and comprise three portions lettered respectively for the front part a, b and c, and for the rear part a, Z) and 0. Of these portions a and a and c and. 0 are, respectively, of equal length, but the portions Z) of the side edges of the front part are materially shortloo Figs. 16 and 17 throughout the center of the front, part to provide a garment adapted to i be opened down the front.

-is ermanently fastened to 1 tion As shown in Figs. 4 and 5 the back part may comprise two members 21, 22 adapted to overlap in adjustable relation as shown in Figs. 1 and 5, or it may consist of three members 23, 24, as shown in Figs. 14 and 15, the members 23 and 24 overlapping as indicated in Fig. 14 and being permanently secured to the member 25.

* In all of these forms, however, the shaped side edges of the back part are secured to the corresponding portions of the shaped side edges of the front part. That is, the portions a of the back part are sewed directly to the portions a of the.front part, the portions 6 of the back member are gathered and sewed directly to the portions 6 of the front part and the portions'c of the 5 back part are sewed directly to the portions 0 of the front part. This produces side seams of the garment, as clearly shown in Figs. 1, 7, 10, and 15, having straight portions 30, 31 and a portion 32 where the back part is gathered to the front member, thus producing very substantial fullness at the seat of the garment, as indicated at 33. The back part is also in each case provided with a. central opening shownat 34 in Fig. 9, and which is produced by the free overlapping of the individual portions 21, 22, as indicated at 35 in Figs. 1, 5 and 7, and similarlyproduced by the overlapping of parts 23 and 24 below the point where they are sewed to the member 25, as indicated at 36 in Figs. 10, 14 and 15. The back portion in each instance has bottom edges 40, 41 extending substantially at right angles to the cleft portion 34, 35 or 36. The bottom edges 40,.

41 of the back parts in each instance are sewed to the cleft portion 18 ofthe front part, thus producing leg openings adjacent the center rear opening 34, 35 or 36.

Each of these garments is adapted to be supported directly from the shoulder of the wearer. In the various forms of womens garmentsshoulder straps 50, 51 or shoulder bands 52, 53 are employed. As illustrated in Figs. 1

-' and 2, the bands 50, 51 are both fastened'to the front part 10 as indicated at 54, 55.

Band is permanently fastened to the por tion 22 of the rear part and band 51 the porfrom the edgesthereof and the upper corner edges of the portions 21 and 22 are provided with loops as indicated at 56 and 57 respectively, of which loop 56 surrounds the shoulder band 50 and loop 57 surrounds the shoulder. band 51. This permits the gar- 1 of the rear part at points removed Fig. 1, where automatic adjustment to the 'body of the wearer takes place. If the forms shown in Figs. .7 and 10 are used the waist portion must be made large enough to admit of the garments being slipped up over the form of the wearer.

I claim:

1. The process of making undergarments which consists in forming a division along the lower portion of the longitudinal center line of a front part, providing a back part having excess length of material at its central portion extending below the bottom edges of the front part before the lower portion of the back part has been sewed into the garment, said excess length of material having a substantially straight bottom edge double the length of said division, uniting said back part along its side edges'to the side edges of said front said bottom edge with t e edges ofsaid division with the center of said bottom edge at the meeting point of the edges of said division in the center of the front of the garment, whereby legs are formed with crotch fullness extending directly back from the center of the front of the garment.

2. The process of making undergarments which consists in forming a division along the lower portion of the center line of a front part having shaped side edges, providing a back part which in its unassembled condition is formed with upwardly converging shaped side edges, .a portion of which is longer than the corresponding portions of the side edges of the front part, forming saidback part with an opening extending along the center line thereof and with a composite bottom edge consisting of two concavely curved portions each angularly ex tended from said'side edges in symmetrical relation to the back part and with central, portions extending substantially at right.

angles to the central opening in the hack and having the same angles respectively with the symmetrically curved portions, uniting said front and back-parts along the art, and uniting side edges with the back parts gathered to" take up the extra length of its side edges at the sides of the seat of the garment, anduniting said central bottom edges of the back part to the edges of the division in the front part to form the legs of the garment with a central rear opening extending rearwardly and upwardly from the point where the edges of the division of the front part are united to the central edges of the rear part.

3. The process of making undergarments which consists in forming a division along the lower portion of the longitudinal center line of a front part, providing a back part divided at the bottom substantially along the longitudinal center line thereof for a portion of its length and having centrally positioned bottom edges of a combined length double the length of said front division and having curved edges extending between the bottom edge and the side edges and adapted, to form continuations of the bottom edges of the front part when the garment is assembled, uniting said front and back parts along the side edges, and uniting the combined central bottom edge of the back part to the edges of the division of the front part to form the legs of the garment with acentral rear opening extending rearwardly and upwardly from the upper point of said division at the crotch of the garment to a. point in the back near the waistline of the garment. r

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature.

MARY D. NEILSON. 

